FALL 60 DAY CHALLENGE RESULTS
60 DAY CHALLENGES AVERAGE APPROXIMATELY 20,000 CONTESTANTS
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NATIONAL FINALIST!
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Jamie Barbour
Madison Sparks
Adam S.
Jamie Barbour
Jamie Barbour
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STORY:
This 60 day challenge will always be special to me. I decided to take on this challenge really only for one reason. That was for my 24 year old daughter. My daughter Madison left home when she was almost 20 and moved away to Minnesota. She was very lost for four years and headed down some dark paths and really went off track with her life. I missed her terribly and there was always an emptiness in me of a mother’s broken heart. I prayed daily that God would watch over her and protect her.
In May of this year she came back to Ohio and moved in with me for a fresh start. I had no idea how this would change not only her life for the better but also have a profound healing for myself. The one thing that I have always had is discipline, perseverance and consistency in my life when it came to sports, fitness and a healthy lifestyle. My goal was to lead by example and show her these three things. We began our journey pretty quick when she arrived with regular workouts 6 days a week and then we decided the 60 day challenge would really help us focus. It has been so incredible watching her body change as well as mine. We have been through some ups and downs but we muscled through together one day at a time. We encouraged each other, laughed, whined, got frustrated at times with each other but mostly held each other accountable throughout the challenge. We used all the Lifetime supplements, gut fix, digestive enzymes, beef collagen protein, BCAA, and a probiotic. We followed a strict meal plan which was challenging but brought us closer as we cooked together. We trained with Brittany Walker who’s patience, guidance and expertise was bar none the best fitness experience we have both ever had. She believed in us and never took her foot off the petal pushing us. We had incredible energy with the group training. This made it so much fun to go through this with others supporting each another. The funniest people ever. My daughter even taught me how to swim. It was challenging but I got better each time we did it. I dealt with a glute injury about mid way through, but I continued to push myself while doing therapy. That was probably the hardest part to not give up but I would not back down for her.
I tend to move very quickly as some may know during workouts and my personal life translates the same. Maddy and I operate at two different speeds, so I had to let go and allow her to be her so she would feel good about herself. My job was to work hard and be consistent. This was a change I needed to make within me, letting go and allowing her to grow.
The biggest change in myself I saw was incredible energy, and a sculpted physique. I am 57 years old and have four kids so I feel so proud of how far I came in this challenge and now have a happy full heart to go with my fitness level.
I am so very thankful for this challenge. What we teach we learn and this was such a great life example of this concept. Very life changing for us both. Our journey continues.
Jamie Barbour
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Madison Sparks
Madison Sparks
STORY!:
Life opens up opportunities to learn and grow on a regular basis. Knowing when and why can’t always be determined right away. The 60-day challenge was presented at a time in my life where I was struggling with addiction, discipline, depression and self-love. Entering myself in the challenge not only changed the way I look and feel but also opened up my mind to a new way of living in general.
At age 19 I decided to move to Minnesota to gain a new experience and live independently. I was young and had absolutely zero plan or idea on how to manage myself. For four years I wandered aimlessly in a big city waking up, working, drinking, and partying into the early hours of the morning, sleep, rinse and repeat. I was losing parts of myself along the way until finally as a whole, I lost myself. It’s a scary place to be confusing, living every day as if it were the same and having zero hopes or dreams for the future. My life was zooming by and I had nothing to show for it. Until finally, early May of this year I made the decision to move back home. With the love and support from my Mother I was able to pull myself out of the dark hole and place my feet on the ground again. Even though I felt I could start taking steps in the right direction I was having a difficult time figuring out how to break the bad habits that formed over the years. The 60-day challenge played a large role with helping me break the old and start the new.
The first few weeks I worked out early mornings which consisted of cardio and strength training five times a week with my trainer Brittany Walker. She put me on a well thought out meal plan as well as workout schedule that appropriately fit my physical needs and changed as my body did. I used Lifetime supplements like Digestive enzyme, BCAA Recovery powder, Glutamine, and Beef Collagen Protein powder which were amazing to have along the way. Eventually, two-a-days of cardio became added into the mix which occurred four times a week and continued with that routine right up to the end of the challenge. Throughout the entire 60-day journey, Brittany pushed and supported me. Without her guidance and strength I would not be where I am today. I am blessed this person came into my life, she has expanded my thinking towards person health and self-love and I will be forever grateful for this wonderful woman! Her knowledge stretches far and left me walking away from this experience with confidence and knowing that I can accomplish anything of which I haven’t felt since I was a kid. I learned how to appropriately manage my time as well as plan out my busy schedule with the meal preparation and extra workouts. Pre-planning and staying prepared was a huge part of the challenge and learning this skill is something I will use for the rest of my life. Also having the support of my beautiful Mother is something I am also grateful for. She has been patient with me as I slowly grew stronger mentally and shed old habits while forming new and healthy ones.
I really didn’t believe the challenge would be so life changing for me. In a matter of two-months I’ve learned so much about myself. I highly recommend this challenge for anyone that may be in a similar situation as mine or if you’re feeling stuck because the impact of becoming stronger physically can make you stronger mentally. The challenge is a good platform for shaping into the best possible version of yourself and locating that part of yourself that is unstoppable. I’m proud to say I’m starting a new chapter of my life. I’m ready to take on whatever the world throws at me!
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Adam S.
Adam S.
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If someone asked me to describe my engagement with health and fitness prior to the 60 Day Challenge, I would compare it to a person driving down the interstate, going the wrong way. I was in a car, and I was moving, but each mile took me further from the destination where I wanted to be. My “work out” regiment consisted of going to the gym a few times a week, usually arriving late, leaving early, and pushing myself only hard enough to not get noticed by others. I did not have a plan for my meals, and thus wandered through my days eating or not eating whatever I happened upon. I would come home from work starved and find myself over eating at dinner and then snacking into the night. I was in mediocre shape, but overall, I felt horrible. At times I considered working harder at the gym and improving my diet, but always fell back on the fact that it was easier not to try than to try, not succeed and be judged by others. I was afraid to fail, and so I eased through the days, weeks, months and years at the same uninspired pace. I was lost.
And then it happened. Brittany, my trainer, asked me if I would be interested in doing the 60 Day Challenge. This was not the first time she had asked me this, and in the past, I was quick to dismiss it. Afraid of embarrassing myself and disappointing others, I had always said no. Ready to turn her down, as I had done in the past, I decided instead to pause and let the weight of the question sink in. I asked myself, what do I have to lose, and what do I have to win? What if it were to go horribly wrong, would I be any worse off than I was right then? But what instead if it went right? How would that feel? I realized in that moment that I was sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I was ready to change my life.
I cared more about transformation than I did the risk of failure. I wanted this for me, and it did not matter what anyone else thought. Continuing with my “driving the wrong way” analogy, I decided to put on my turn signal, get off the exit, turn around, and get back on the “interstate”, this time going in the right direction. And so I began my 60 Day Challenge. Brittany, and this 60 Day Challenge became my new GPS, giving me a road map and directions of what to do and where to go. I began to push myself harder in the workouts she provided me, I added sustainable cardio, and incorporated consistent water throughout the day. Brittany helped me with a meal plan and suggested supplements such as protein, ketones, BCAA’s, and glutamine that would help fuel my body to work harder and be more efficient.
Every part of my health and fitness became intentional and purpose filled. Every day I got stronger, and others around me began to see my body change. What is even more remarkable is that I too began to see my body change! Someone once told me that no place worth going is easy to get to, and the last 60 days has shown me that in a clear way. Many days I was tired, and many days were filled with challenges. Sometimes I was burned out. But my paradigm for dealing with challenge is not what it once was! Training with Brittany had given me a community of support, with equipment, instruction, friends and facilities to keep me on track each day. With my support system of Brittany, my wife and my training partners, I was equipped to overcome any challenge that I came upon.
I was not alone, and I had a process that would last well into the future. As The Challenge came into its final days, many asked me “Can you wait for this all to be over? Are you so excited to be able to do whatever you want again?” Each time I am asked this, I consider my response and am amazed at just how far I have come, how much I have changed. I am a new person, no longer held back by fear, but instead fueled and focused on the future. This is not over after 60 days. My life is on a new trajectory, and meal planning and prep, cardio, and pushing myself harder each workout is my new normal. This feeling is too good to ever want to go back, and I am only getting started!
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Jonathan Tewart
NATIONAL FINALIST!
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Our bracelets ask, “What’s Your After?” I wanted “My After” to be a new me, a healthy me, I wanted to win my life back;
After, I wanted to not DIE in my sixties, to be there for my wife and 5-year-old
After, I wanted to go to my daughter’s wedding
After, I wanted to go to my granddaughter’s wedding
After, I wanted to have my clothes fit, to be proud of my body, to feel great
After, I wanted to be a living example of how to be healthy
After, I wanted to eliminate my hypertension
After, I wanted to end the cycle, of next year I will lose weight, next birthday, next time …
Then I found a way to make “My After” happen.
I joined Life Time in June but only lost about five pounds on my own. I did a Life Time Active Metabolic Assessment and a Resting Metabolic Assessment with trainer Matt. He showed me that I had been working out wrong for 20 years. Instead of hitting my fat burning target heart rate all I was ever doing was burning off the glucose in my body.
I needed more help. I talked with Dan Boshkovski. He had a big poster of himself behind his desk, he was a 60days finalist for Summer 2019. I said that I wanted those changes, to push myself to win the 60days. Dan said that I needed to go all in, to commit myself and be mentally tough, he said I needed to do group training, he said I needed…
Brittany Walker
Brittany is my trainer who trains five days a week locally to me at Lifetime Fitness. She is Dan’s trainer and has trained past 60days finalists. Brittany had me try one of her small group sessions. After that I was hooked, determined to lose weight, gain muscle, and finally win my life back.
Brittany made goals a priority. She asked, “Do you want to lose 40 pounds or LOOK like you lost 40 pounds?” I know now she was asking me to make a choice between being fit and thin. She showed me how and gave me confidence to be fit the right way; to have the body to burn calories, to have energy, to reach higher, work harder, and feel better in body and mind.
Training with Brittany in her small classes was amazing. I could see that this was a group of friends. I had always worked out solo but now I had friends who support me and push me to work harder and show by example. I soon learned burpees, bear crawls and mountain climbers, I picked up a kettle bell for the first time and went from 18kg to 28kg.
The individual attention from Brittany was invaluable, she would always demonstrate the movements, the weights and the machines. She tailored the weights and the exercises in each set, for each person; remembering who had injuries or surgery, even when there where over a dozen people in her class.
I could ask her questions about, exercise, nutrition, sleep, lifestyle. Brittany would text almost daily, I would send pictures of my weigh-ins, and my progress photos. She also got me to swim again, insisting swimming and using the Life Time sauna was a fantastic way to loose fat.
Life Time showed me how I was dieting wrong; not nearly enough protein, water or calories. Both Dan and Brittany encouraged me to start a complete meal plan. I thought the plan was all backwards, instead of eating less I was eating more. I was going to greatly increase my metabolism and burn calories constantly.
Instead of starving myself I turned into a fat burning machine.
I quickly realized that the meal plan Brittany tailored to me was key to my success.
I received so much encouragement from the Life Time staff, asking me how much I lost and handing out fist bumps in the hall. After 45 days I reached 200 lbs. for the first time since my wedding. I was so excited to tell my family and friends how much I lost and show them the before and after pictures. I want to inspire my family, especially my parents, to do the next 60days challenge and use all Life Time has to offer. I know that if they sign up together, they will see dramatic life changing results. I want “my after” to be not for myself but for everyone that I love.
“My After” is;
32.5 total pounds lost, weighing under 190 lbs.,
10 lbs. of muscle gained,
51.3% reduction in body fat, from 33.1% body fat to 16.1%!
“My After” is more energy, workout highs, sharp mind, better sleep, no need for coffee, doing more in less time, feeling simply AWESOME!
“My After” is NO MORE MIGRAINES. I have suffered migraines all my life. I would get them every week; I was on two prescriptions. Since doing the 60days they have disappeared. This is the longest I have ever gone without a migraine. This is amazing to eliminate the debilitating pain, to erase something I had cosigned myself to live with the rest of my life.
“My After” is; training with Brittany, following meal plans, and learning healthy habits for a lifetime. I will remember these 60days as the turning point where I won my life back.
“My After” is working to win my health back, not only saving my life, but to live a better one for myself and for my family.
Thank you everyone,
Jon